Police name 15-year-old girl as Wisconsin school shooter

The shooter who opened fire at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, was 15-year-old female student Natalie Rupnow, who went by the name “Samantha,” police said on Monday. She died of a self-inflicted gunshot.

The shooting left one student and one teacher dead and six injured, including two people who are facing life-threatening conditions, police said.

A second-grade student made the 911 call to report the shooting, police said Monday.

Abundant Life Christian school is a K-12 school that serves about 420 students, according to an administrator. It planned to close for Christmas vacation after this week.

Authorities on Monday investigated a residential property north of Madison, Wisconsin, just eight miles from the Abundant Life Christian School where two people were killed in a shooting Monday, according to CNN affiliate WTMJ.

Videos show a home decorated with Christmas lights and cordoned off with police tape. The main door had been removed, and the windows damaged. Neighbors saw police throw stun grenades, which detonate with a bright flash and loud bang, into the home earlier in the afternoon, WTMJ reported.

Neighbors told WTMJ that officers had arrived in the early afternoon, just after the shooting took place, and were going in and out until night fell.

“I heard the news this afternoon and thought, well, we’ll just drive by the main drag, and there it was,” one neighbor told WTMJ. “The front door was taken off and nobody was around, and the detectives are in there mopping up the mess.”

Earlier on Monday, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said the suspect’s home had been searched and police are seeking additional search warrants. The 15-year-old suspect’s family has so far been cooperating with law enforcement, and police are not looking to charge the parents in connection to the shooting “at this time,” Barnes said.

He confirmed that the heavy police presence at a home in northern Madison was related to the shooting investigation but provided no further details.